The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-03-16
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
iten,s OF Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

The session OF the Indiana General As
sembly has expired by limitation.
Secretary Manning has arranged to make
4 tripto Europe for the benefito OF his health.
The German Reichstag has passed the
Septennate bill by 4 vote Of 222 to %.
The process of melting trade dollars has
begun at the assay office in New York.
Fifty-seven miners who were cntombed
in the Quaxegnon colliery in Belgium have
escaped
\ fleet of seven steamers has just arrived
at New York, bringing between 1000 and
$500 stcerase passengers.
The striking printers Of milwaukee, have
returned to work on the employers terms,
and promising not to remain in the union.
The Massachusetts, Legislature, by vote
of :. to 6, defeated the woman suffrage
resolution.
Representatives Of all New England rail
roads met in convention Thursday to con-
slider the inter-Stat commerce law.
Samuel Bonser, Of Springfield. Ohio,
Tuesday night shot and killed Dora Judd
and then killed himself. Cause-unrcqult-
ed love.
Charles West, is Maiden Lane, New
York, has been arrested for swindling per
sons through the mail He was known as
the Victor Watch Company.
Mrs. Mary NJ. Yates, granddaughter OF
Chief Justice Marshall, was married to
Count Eugene Mitkiewiez in Washington,
D. c.
The strike in the marble yard of Bowker.
Tory & Co., of Boston, has ended by the
complete surrender of the firm, and 800
laborerS have resumed work.
Randall, Gill & Shollies, boot and shoe
dealers, Boston, have failed. Liabilities
$50, ,0G0: assets unknown. The failure is
attributed to losses in the Southern trade.
Both branches Of the Maine Legislature
have failed to give the necessary two-thirds
vote on the passage of the amendment to
the Constitution providing for female suf
frage.
Up to last Friday night there had been
fled ic the pension office ZIG applications
Tor pensions under the Mexican pension
law passed late in the last session Of Con
greSs.
Judge McCue, solicitor of the treasury.
will visit Charleston shortly under instruc-
tons from Acting Secretary Fairchild. with
q view of selecting site for the new pub
lie building.
The last Alabama Legislature enacted a
law allowing women to hold the Office OF
Notary Public. The Governor has made
his first appointment under this law in the
person of the wife of State Senator Long.
The dynamite works of Mrs. Mary A.
Ditmar, at Bay Chester, on the Sound. near
New York, blew up for the fifth time Mon
Gay. killing one man and lcvelling the
buildings to the ground.
4 Berlin dispatch says: Trade returns
for January We're better than those for tic
same month last year Imports OF Amcri-
can cotton rose from 116, ,0S2 German Quin-
tails to 1905
\ Los Angeles, Cal, dispatch says that
Tracy Titus wcll-known theatrical man
ager, died on Saturday night at Sierra
N:,drc Villa He was at one time husband
OF Alice Oates, who died recently.
Lucy B. Parsons, lecturing negro An
archist. was refused the use of hall in
Columbus, Ohio. She called on the Mayor to
protest against such action, and became so
abusive that She was locked up.
Inman and Mead Case, young sons of a
Baptist minister at Hawley, Pa, quarreled
at their home and drew revolvers, and In
man shot his brother Mead, intiicting q
mortal wound Inman is wild with grief.
An effort was made to induce the Presi'
dent to sign the river and harbor bill after
Congress had adjourned, but he declined
as such course would have been uncon
stitutional.
The wheel barrow factory of J. G. Drcy'
fus, of New York city, was destroyed by
fire on Saturday. Loss 100000. The
Office of the New York Weekly was much
damaged by the water. Loss $4,000.
Last weeks issue of the Farmers Recier
saws: Thus far reports from the winter
wheat belt indicate that the crop is emerg
ing from winter in better shape than list
year.
]. Moreland, while working at saw
mill eight miles from Eufaula Ala, fell in
front Of the circular saw One leg was
sawn off ciean, the other badly manglcd
and his body horribly lacerated. He died
in thirty minutes.
Frank C. Budd, broker, of New York,
who was brought back from Canada,
charged with defrauding H. H. Mallory,
publisher of the Churcltman, of a large
sum of money, is confined at police head
quarters.
The public printer has discharged l0t
employees, many of them regular hands.
The discharged employees include men
and women, and are distributed among
various branches Of the Office.
1t Gloucester, Mass, OF Sunday, the
efligy of Capt Quigley, of the Canadian
cruiser Terror, was found suspended in In
dependent Hall, with the British union
down. The city marshal cut it down a<
soon as he discovered it.
Representatives Hemphill and Dibble are
looking after the interests of their constitu.
ents. Hemphill has called at the postotfict
department, and recommended the estab
lshment of mail route from Rock Hill tt
Gastoaia.
The overflow Of the Mississippi has inun
dated the track of the Memphis and Little
Rock road from Hopefeld, opposite this
CITY, to Madison, Ark, distance Of forty
miles, making travel impracticable.
There is great excitement at st. John
Neb., in financial end commercial circle
over the suspension of the Maritime Bank.
No particulars can be obtained at present
as everybody seems to have been taken by
surprise